Area of Study 3: Using language to persuadeOutcome 3: The study design states that students must: 'identify and analyse how language is used in a persuasive text and to present a reasoned point of view in an oral or a written form.' 3b: Oral PresentationThis will be the first assessment task in the ‘Using Language to Persuade’ unit. This will be an oral presentation between 5-10 minutes (no longer!) of a point of view, and will be performed at a designated time on Friday 18th of February.3a: Language Analysis This task will be completed on the afternoon of Wednesday the 16th of March. For some teacher feedback on observations made in practice pieces, click here
Resources for Outcome 3a
Here is a pdf document containing sections from many different texts that will help you to understand what to do for the task, how to plan and write the response, and how to plan and perform your persuasive oral presentation:
this is the file where you can read through annotated examples from the textbook
Writing your Response - Language Analysis
Here are templates for the two different ways in which you can construct your media analysis. You may choose to structure your written response by using either of these.
The Tasks - Unit 3
Area of Study 3: Using language to persuadeOutcome 3: The study design states that students must: 'identify and analyse how language is used in a persuasive text and to present a reasoned point of view in an oral or a written form.'3b: Oral PresentationThis will be the first assessment task in the ‘Using Language to Persuade’ unit. This will be an oral presentation between 5-10 minutes (no longer!) of a point of view, and will be performed at a designated time on Friday 18th of February.3a: Language Analysis
This task will be completed on the afternoon of Wednesday the 16th of March. For some teacher feedback on observations made in practice pieces, click here
Resources for Outcome 3a
Here is a pdf document containing sections from many different texts that will help you to understand what to do for the task, how to plan and write the response, and how to plan and perform your persuasive oral presentation:Persuasive Oral Communication Models
The following pages are from the ABC website and are part of the IQ2 debate series. Click on a topic to learn about the topic, speakers, and to see video clips of the speakers in action.For a sporting nation, Australia isn't very sporting
China is not fit to host the Olympics
Popular culture; we've seen the future and it's junk
Are we better off?
The media can't be trusted to tell the truth
Alcohol and Adolescents
Drinking Nightmare Australian Government website with information that may help you in understanding the issue and finding factsResources for Outcome 3b
Annotating an article
Writing your Response - Language Analysis
Here are templates for the two different ways in which you can construct your media analysis. You may choose to structure your written response by using either of these.2011_approachestoanalysis_jj.jpg
Analysing Visuals
Identifying Tone
Persuasive Techniques
Analysing the News
Media Knowall a nice resource explaining how we approach analysing the newsThe Age guide to writing on persuasive language